Note that Sega designed the Dreamcast so you couldn’t balance a TV on top. I think either people need to get some of these and gut the innards before replacing them with a Dreamcast or just go to Richer Sounds and scratch a spiral into the screen of their display model.

In an apology to Mr. Sponge Finge, and as a punishment to myself, I have rectified things by removing every instance of the word ‘it’ (bar one)

That’ll teach me to not re-read before submitting.

To Giger:
No I don’t have the keys to that. I wrote this post about 4 hours ago but scheduled it to post at a random time.
I actually knew about this TV a while ago and was meaning to post something nearer the release date, but then it actually came out suddenly, which reminded me to do it.

Ah right. Wasn’t trying one-upmanship as I figured plenty of people knew before I found out; Just thought you might be the one with the keys to the uk:r twitter account as I’m sure Zorg told me before he’d lost them long ago. Or maybe was that the Idiot Toys feed.

Anyway, keep it up, doing better than me on BitBroken. Can neither drum up extra readers nor think of anything that funny. (Am sure those two are linked in some way but not sure how.)

Despite Steve Jobs’s proclamation that Apple manufacturing plant FOXCONN is ‘not a sweatshop’, an independent report conducted by Human Rights charity Sacom has concluded that the standards of staff welfare entirely contravene human rights regulations, and that staff at the Chinese factory are treated ‘like machines’.

Foxconn had promised a pay rise and other ‘perks’ after a recent spate of factory workers committed highly-publicised suicide, but these have yet to happen.

At least KFC chickens are allowed to peck at a stick of corn these days, which is literally more than can be said for these factory drones.

I don’t want to lay a guilt trip on you, but it’s definitely something to think about. I think Apple have a particularly sensational iconography, and manage to portray a sense of technical excellence. Yeah, that’s great but for me a company about to overtake Exxon Mobil as the US’s largest company might want to try and steer the future in a diferent direction, you know one that doesn’t grind human surplus into a paste of industrial servitude for the benefit of wealthy consumers.

ummm I actually think this is quite cool…. (waits for barrage of abuse) moves on…. but then again I still want the Snes TV combo thing… Presumably there was also a sega one that is better technically but has something wrong with it like it will only play Golden Axe 1, golden axe 2, ecco and absolutely nothing else….

iv’e only had this a week and but now it dunt switch on an ithink it wont play ps3 games anyway.its got a spider living in its hdmi hole.
i know it can be fixed cos of my mate who says he fixed 1 an anyway its might be only the playsation an you can buy them cheap off ebAy.
norefunds sold as sin.

I always thought bitbroken was being done by Cutlack… what with it being genuinely funny and all that… in fact I’m fairly certain that every board user on here is just another side to Cutlack’s personality and I include myself in that.

But yeah well done Cutlack personality #367, bitbroken is well funny so don’t give it up lol.

(Also I know its rude to refer to people by their second name, but seeing as I only go through his bins I can’t call him by his first name and once you know someone’s real name calling people by their internet name is a bit like being 5 and calling someone batman instead of their actual name……)

I think I’d rather think of myself as a Welsh franchise of the Gary Cutlack brand than the limb/pseudopod/slimy tentacle of some screaming, malformed gestalt entity, but I guess I’ll take what I can get.

Cheers though, I think. Nice to know at least 3 people read the rants I occasionally get round to posting. Even if those three only turn out to be just part of this strange Distributed-Cutlack-Conciousness.

Now that we’re on ‘IRL’ name terms with Zorg, and are habituated to a generally pointed discussion of him in the third person (edging towards first person in some brave cases), can I suggest we exchange stories of how he has touched us, either in the figurative or literal sense (preferably the latter)?

I once saw Zorg’s Facebook profile picture in thumnail format when he joined a hilarious group I made on the ‘book. I actually saw a little thumbnail of a picture that Zorg had taken himself of something that happened in his real life, and that he didn’t release into the public sphere beyond what people need to be invited to see.

That means that Zorg permitted my perusal of a thumbanil of his Facebook profile picture.

In light of this undeniable symbol of acceptance, I hereby nominate myself as the UK:R right-hand man to Zorg.

Please don’t challenge this. I really need this. I don’t have much else. It’s either UK:R or I join the Unarius Academy of Science:

Bitbroken is awesome.
Dont stop. A la weatherbox, I dont have much else.

Currently sitting in an office listening to co-workers discussing xfactor, strictly and now talking about what other people they ‘know’ were saying about these thing on bloody facebook. ARRGHH!! Isnt it bad enough these progs exist without having to facebook about them AND THEN TELL PEOPLE VERBALLY ABOUT THE FACEBOOKING OF THE PROGRAMMES.

That BitBroken update about Christmas almost made me take a baseball bat to the streets of Kensington. The woman is a total cunt and deserves to live in a hard estate somewhere and taught a real lesson, preferably about “shanking” (I read the lingo in a Guardian article in the Guide so I’m down with the Tichy Snyder and various other “dudes”…god I’m a cunt).

Are we all ready for the Panorama “Don’t you know that World of Warcraft is played by people that had WoW not existed would be addicted to another form of entertainment anyway” program tonight?

I just want to see Jeremy Vine point to a picture of Mario and say “Bastard”. Oh for a Chris Morris special.

Actually shouldn’t Charlie Brooker be speaking out against this program? Obviously at the end of the program they could conclude that video games are harmless and they’re generally OK for you making my comments above totally worthless, like they always are.

You stopped reading about line 5 didn’t you, DIDN’T YOU! I probably should go for an office-toilet-you-know-what to calm me down

I bought one of these at the weekend. The missus wanted a new TV in the bedroom, and this was too good an offer to pass up. I get to play ICO Crazy Taxi in bed, and she gets to watch Home and Away on demand thanks to the internet connectivity.

Yes, it’s ugly as sin, but these things have a habit of selling for stupid money a few years down the line.

No, no. I think he’ll be pleased that you’ve inadvertantly advertised a Sony product. No doubt each time someone on the forum goes “Cool I want that Sony product” little rainbows shoot out of his heart. This is what he went into the internet for. This was his dream.